Beazelbub,
I'll let you have that one!
Enter at your own risk, eh?
But then again, that's this aviation business as a whole... Regardless of training method etc.
I was always taught that you should never gamble more than you can lose... Maybe that was a more useful lesson than I first realised...
Best of luck to the initial poster...
I don't think you're alone - bear in mind that most people wouldn't be man enough to admit to being in such a pickle.